"Yeah, I've heard about some half-baked Akechi revenge plans since I got here. But it sounds like you two are luckier than most of us."

He kind of wishes he had a partner. Trust your partner, that shinigami Akechi told him, and there was only one person that could ever mean for Ren.

He doesn't want that for Akechi, though. And with all due respect to shinigami Akechi, he still isn't sure he could trust a partner if he had one. Regardless of all that, what Ren does or doesn't want, it didn't happen that way for him.